Health Minister Ashley Dalton It is open about his fight cancerWarning “None of us know what is around the corner”.
MP for West Lancashire, Who is working On labor “Ten years Cancer Scheme”, In the last summer, incurable metastatic breast cancer was diagnosed.
“When I say I have received metastatic cancer, people are surprised. They expect me to be bald, lying in one hospital The bed is actively dying. And it can come at some point, and it can be much closer than our thinking, but it can be a long way, ”he said.
“People say to me, ‘How long have you got to live?” I like, ‘Ooh I don’t know when have you met?’ You don’t know, none of you know what is around the corner. ,
Ms. Dalton was First breast cancer diagnosed in 2014. After a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment, she went into exemption for a decade. But just before the general election, he felt his stomach ache and a scan revealed a big growth.
He said, “They drove it out and came to know Many times,
Ms. Dalton, who had a hysterctomy in the last summer, said that NHS offered him the date of surgery on the day of general election. “I had to ask if they could push it back a week,” he said.
After his diagnosis, he said that Sir Kir Stmper sent him a handwritten letter stating how he could support him.
“I went back to him and said,” I need to support me to serve this government. I want to move forward. ” Three months later, he invited me to become a minister, who is writing the National Cancer Scheme, ”he said.
The Health Minister said that she wants to show that people with metastatic cancer should not be placed “on scrape” and should be expected to “leave, leave and lie”.
Ms. Dalton, who is being treated at the Claterbridge Cancer Center in Liverpool, is currently on its fourth cycle of chemotherapy drug capacitabine – which is distributed as a tablet, causing side effects, including fatigue and painful, itchy hands and feet.
While she is giving more “speed” herself than normal, she has not yet worked for a day.
He said: “For me, work is fundamentally important for my feeling. This is what I live to do. I like it. So working for me is really important. It is not necessarily a matter for everyone.
“I am being told that I had metastatic breast cancer, employees were coming to me, ‘Okay, these are the benefits that you can find, here is told how to talk to your employer about leaving work.” What if I don’t want to work?
The government’s National Cancer Scheme is scheduled to be published before Christmas, and its purpose is to improve the survival rates. According to Cancer Research UK, there are about 60,000 new cases of breast cancer every year.